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23 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Two refining companies have petitioned the EPA to change the biofuels credit program at the center of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), claiming in a letter to EPA in late December that the current renewable identification numbers (RINs) program was illegal and driving small refiners out of business. In a Dec. 28, 2023, lett...
23 Jan 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Farmland values have hit a plateau after three years of dramatic price increases, but one of the nation's largest farmland brokers thinks tight supplies and high demand will keep a retreat in values at bay. Paul Schadegg, senior vice president of real estate operations at Farmers National Company, said despite pressure fr...
23 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA plans to limit pollution runoff from at least some meatpacking plants and launched a formal 60-day public comment period on Tuesday for a proposed rule that provides three different options. Even before the posting of the rule on the Federal Register, environmental groups were calling Monday for the agency to implement th...
22 Jan 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday spotlighted the problems facing Congress trying to draft a farm bill that will boost reference prices, expand crop insurance and provide more efficient disaster aid to producers. Lawmakers need to become more creative than looking at strategies that essentially rob Peter to pay Pau...
22 Jan 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Agriculture and environmental groups have asked the federal government to investigate Koch Industries' planned $3.6 billion acquisition of OCI Global's Iowa Fertilizer Company, expressing concern the transaction would further concentrate the fertilizer industry. Koch announced the planned acquisition in December, saying in a ...